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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 5 and 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does John describe the change in his father, in chapter 6?
(a) His father was becoming less predictable.
(b) His father was becoming meaner.
(c) His father was getting more easygoing.
(d) His father was turning senile.

2. What did John learn to distinguish appropriate reactions from?
(a) Polite ones.
(b) Expected ones.
(c) Genuine ones.
(d) Scripted ones.

3. What did John fantasize about, in the vehicle in the woods?
(a) Being a trucker.
(b) Being a farmer.
(c) Being a combat pilot.
(d) Being a race driver.

4. What does John say became more difficult as her got older?
(a) Refraining from blurting out his thoughts.
(b) Understanding the language of the children around him.
(c) Controlling his troublemaking urges.
(d) Making sense of adults' contradictory expectations.

5. What did John Robison realize he had to work at?
(a) His parents' instructions.
(b) His homework.
(c) Responding to other children.
(d) His bodily needs.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did John get revenge against his biology teacher?

2. What does John say he preferred?

3. What was John Robison's reaction when his parents fought?

4. What did John's grandfather let him do?

5. What kind of news does Betsy relay to John and his mother?

(see the answer key)

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